During a House Education and the Workforce Committee hearing before the congressional recess, Rep. Kevin Kiley (R-CA) discussed the need for parental consent for students to change their pronouns at school.
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00:00From California, Representative Kiley.
00:02Thank you, Mr. Chair.
00:03I think there is a failure to understand on the part of the opposition just how severe the problem this bill aims to rectify is.
00:12We're not talking about school districts that are offering, you know, three choices or four choices when it comes to gender.
00:19They're offering a whole slew of choices, most of which I'm sure the vast majority of Americans have never heard of.
00:25And it's not just small districts, it's big districts, LAUSD, Los Angeles Unified School District, which I actually used to be a teacher there a while back.
00:34It's the second largest school district in the entire country.
00:38It affirms that students may be, quote, agender, genderqueer, genderfluid, two-spirit, bigender, pangender, gender nonconforming, or gender variant.
00:50Now, I haven't the slightest clue what most of those terms mean.
00:53If anyone on the other side of the dais would like to enlighten me, I'd be very happy to learn.
00:59But I'm very skeptical that most of any of these have any basis in actual human biology as opposed to simply being ideological constructs.
01:10So I think that this legislation is a restoration of common sense.
01:13I think the vast majority of Americans would agree that we shouldn't be telling our children they have 30 different genders to select from,
01:22but rather we should be grounding instruction in actual human biology as it's been understood for eons.
01:29So with that, I'm very happy to support this bill, and I yield back to the chair.
01:32I thank the gentleman I recognize, the gentleman from Virginia, ranking.